this is why i worry about the elite pushing islam down.
it's not a right-wing position - it's a marxist analysis.
and, i've been as consistent as consistency can be about it.
you're not just confused about this - you're brainwashed into it. your consent has been manufactured. the conditioning is gramscian.
they need a religion to control you with, or the whole edifice of their system of control begins to fall apart - which is what we saw happen in the 60s, before they started to crackdown in the 70s. and, christianity just doesn't work any more. islam is a more violent, more direct, more hierarchical system - and it is still effective as a tool of control, in many parts of the world.
now, i don't think islam is likely to be any more successful than christianity in controlling the population, not in the west, and not in the long run, but that's not what they think. and, we're going to have to fight all the same battles against the muslims that we fought and won against the christians, if we stand back and let them do this.
we need to get ready for this, because it's coming.
and, the far right will welcome it, when it does - leaving a collection of fake left useful idiots strung up in trees, and crucified on front lawns, to show for it. they'll be the first to go - even before the atheist queers like me.
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And now came the triumph of British respectability over the free thought and religious laxity of the Continental bourgeois. The workmen of France and Germany had become rebellious. They were thoroughly infected with Socialism, and, for very good reasons, were not at all particular as to the legality of the means by which to secure their own ascendancy. The puer robustus, here, turned from day-to-day more malitiosus. Nothing remained to the French and German bourgeoisie as a last resource but to silently drop their free thought, as a youngster, when sea-sickness creeps upon him, quietly drops the burning cigar he brought swaggeringly on board; one-by-one, the scoffers turned pious in outward behavior, spoke with respect of the Church, its dogmas and rites, and even conformed with the latter as far as could not be helped. French bourgeois dined maigre on Fridays, and German ones say out long Protestant sermons in their pews on Sundays. They had come to grief with materialism. "Die Religion muss dem Volk erhalten werden" – religion must be kept alive for the people – that was the only and the last means to save society from utter ruin. Unfortunately for themselves, they did not find this out until they had done their level best to break up religion for ever. And now it was the turn of the British bourgeoisie to sneer and to say: "Why, you fools, I could have told you that 200 years ago!